Multiple choice

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

Participating in activities that entail physical exercise, for example, mowing the lawn, raking leaves, and hoeing the plants, helps to keep the joints supple and muscles firm.

  1. mowing the lawn, raking leaves, and hoeing the plants, helps to keep the joints supple

  2. mowing the lawn, raking the leaves, and hoeing the plants, keeps the joints supple

  3. mowing the lawn, raking the leaves, and hoeing the plants, help keeping the joints supple

  4. mowing the lawn, raking leaves, and hoeing the plants, helps keeping the joints supple

  5. to mow the lawn, rake leaves, and hoe the plants, helps maintain supple joints
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Correct. The option rectifies the errors of wordiness, idiomatic usage and parallelism.

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